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ORGANIC SKIN TIPS

nov 7,2021

STEP 1. CHOOSE YOUR BOTANICAL INGREDIENTS

One of the most exciting parts of learning how to make natural skincare products is getting to work with the vast array of botanical ingredients available to skincare formulators. Every formulator we’ve met gets excited by the opportunity to work with herbs, leaves, stalks, roots, petals, buds, barks, seeds and flowers.

There is a global movement towards combining beauty with wellness, where people want plant-based ingredients in their beauty products, because they feel that we have rejected the knowledge about plants passed down by our ancestors. Many traditional remedies are now being rediscovered and used, which is why we want to incorporate those amazing plants into our natural skincare products.

However, not every botanical ingredient should be used on the skin and some should be used in low percentages, so you need to start researching to find out which botanical ingredients work best when you’re choosing the right ones for your formulation.

STEP 2. MAKE NATURAL SKINCARE PRODUCTS

Now that you have a rough idea of the types of ingredients you want to work with, it’s time to decide which natural skincare product you’re going to make. The world is your oyster: you can choose to make butters, balms, lotions, serums, gels, masks, scrubs, oils, cleansers, creams, toners, moisturisers – or branch out into haircare and start making natural shampoos, conditioners, or styling products. (Need inspiration? Enrol for our award-winning Diploma in Organic Haircare Formulation)

STEP 3. LEARN ABOUT NATURAL PRESERVATION

When you decide to make natural skincare products, you need to have a plan for making safe formulations and that means deciding whether or not you want to use preservatives.

The choice is simple: you either make only anhydrous formulations, which don’t need a preservative, or you make natural skincare products that contain water, which will need a preservative if you want them to have a shelf life of longer than a week. You should also consider how you will preserve products that will have water introduced to them, such as an oil-based salt scrub that you might keep in the shower.

We could point you towards thousands of unsafe recipes online, which ask you to blend together water-based ingredients without a preservative, which could go mouldy and encourage microbial growth within a matter of days. You simply do not want to be rubbing microbes all over your face, which is why it’s so important to get the safety right.

STEP 4. SET UP YOUR WORKSPACE

Even if you’re making formulations for your own use, you want to make sure that you have a sanitised and clean workspace, so you can prevent contamination from occurring. After all, you don’t want to order lots of beautiful botanical ingredients, spend ages learning how to create your own serum and then contaminate it with the kitchen dishcloth!

In other words, if you want to make natural skincare products at home, you’ll need to set up a workspace, which really shouldn’t be your kitchen unless you can properly sanitise your entire workspace and keep it clean each time you formulate.

STEP 5. TURN YOUR NEW SKILLS INTO A NATURAL SKINCARE BUSINESS

Once you discover how easy and fun it is to make natural skincare products, you might decide to turn your new-found skills into a beauty business. After all, if you love your formulations, who’s to say that you might not be able to sell them? The world has never been more receptive to natural skincare and predictions are the global organic personal care market will reach $54bn by 2027.